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The Earth System Grid Federation : an Open Infrastructure for Access to Distributed Geospatial DataThe Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF) is a multi-agency, international collaboration that aims at developing the software infrastructure needed to facilitate and empower the study of climate change on a global scale. The ESGF's architecture employs a system of geographically distributed peer nodes, which are independently administered yet united by the adoption of common federation protocols and application programming interfaces (APIs). The cornerstones of its interoperability are the peer-to-peer messaging that is continuously exchanged among all nodes in the federation; a shared architecture and API for search and discovery; and a security infrastructure based on industry standards (OpenID, SSL, GSI and SAML). The ESGF software is developed collaboratively across institutional boundaries and made available to the community as open source. It has now been adopted by multiple Earth science projects and allows access to petabytes of geophysical data, including the entire model output used for the next international assessment report on climate change (IPCC-AR5) and a suite of satellite observations (obs4MIPs) and reanalysis data sets (ANA4MIPs).
Document ID
20150005515
Acquisition Source
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
External Source(s)
Authors
Cinquini, Luca
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Crichton, Daniel
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Mattmann, Chris
(Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. Pasadena, CA, United States)
Harney, John
(Oak Ridge National Lab. TN, United States)
Shipman, Galen
(Oak Ridge National Lab. TN, United States)
Wang, Feiyi
(Oak Ridge National Lab. TN, United States)
Ananthakrishnan, Rachana
(Argonne National Lab. IL, United States)
Miller, Neill
(Argonne National Lab. IL, United States)
Denvil, Sebastian
(Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL) France)
Morgan, Mark
(Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (IPSL) France)
Pobre, Zed
(NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt, MD, United States)
Bell, Gavin M.
(Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Livermore, CA, United States)
Drach, Bob
(Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Livermore, CA, United States)
Williams, Dean
(Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Livermore, CA, United States)
Kershaw, Philip
(Rutherford Appleton Lab. Oxford, United Kingdom)
Pascoe, Stephen
(Rutherford Appleton Lab. Oxford, United Kingdom)
Gonzalez, Estanislao
(Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum G.m.b.H. Hamburg, Germany)
Fiore, Sandro
(Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC) Leece, Italy)
Schweitzer, Roland
(National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Seattle, WA, United States)
Date Acquired
April 10, 2015
Publication Date
October 8, 2012
Subject Category
Computer Systems
Earth Resources And Remote Sensing
Geophysics
Social And Information Sciences (General)
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Other
Keywords
search,
climate science
CMIP5.
peer-to-peer (P2P),
Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF)
Node
discover
security

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